Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

- Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Canetti, Elias

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.

Zohar

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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.

Kant, Immanuel

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Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

Mencken, H. L.

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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Greene, Graham

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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Mailer, Norman

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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Epictetus

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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Belloc, Hilaire

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When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

23.

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.

Traven, B.

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It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Twain, Mark

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A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Proust, Marcel

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Crowley, Aleister

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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Beecher, Lyman

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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Mcilvanney, William

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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

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Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

South, Bishop Robert

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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Wilde, Oscar

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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Syrus, Publilius

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When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Feather, William

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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Proust, Marcel

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With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Proverb, Russian

43.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Speakes, Larry

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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Wilde, Oscar

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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Miller, Henry

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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.